| Jani Ruscica | Parallel Acts
Turku Art Museum is presenting Jani Ruscica’s exhibition Parallel Acts in museum’s Studio.
The core of the exhibition consists of a film Beginning an Ending (2009, 17 min.) where seven persons reveal their thoughts about the future. Ruscica’s (b. 1978) previous work Evolutions (2008) was awarded the First Prize for films under 60 minutes in Cologne’s... |
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| Jan-Erik Andersson: Unique LEAF HOUSE opens
The Finnish artist Jan-Erik Andersson's Gesamtkunstwerk, the leaf shaped house Life on a Leaf, has been completed. The unique house, which functions as a home for Andersson's family in Turku, was first conceived in 1999. It was was planned with architect Erkki Pitkäranta, with whom Andersson has worked for many years under the name Rosegarden Art & Architecture.
The house is the... |
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| Finnish Jewellery
This exhibition will be the first comprehensive presentation of Finnish jewellery from antiques to contemporary conceptual art jewellery. It will follow changes in the meanings and design of jewellery over the decades. Exhibits will include masterpieces made by jewellers of the Fabergé era in St. Petersburg, elegant cameo pieces by Eva Gyldén from the 1920s, uncluttered jewellery... |
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| Tracking Traces | collection exhibition
The world that surrounds us is full of signs and messages – traces of the world that contemporary art makes use of by copying, recycling, sampling and commenting on them. Traces can be found near and far: on the human body, in advertising images, on cereal packets and in the urban space. The traces can be physical imprints, visible signs, actions or memory traces. Some of the... |
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| Renaissance Palace and Defensive Citadel
The Jyväskylä Workers' Club and the Defence Corps Building - two gems by Alvar Aalto
The Gallery’s 2008 summer exhibition presents two buildings from Alvar Aalto’s early production, both of which were originally designed as club houses. The Jyväskylä Workers’ Club and the Defence Corps building were among the few masonry buildings in the small town... |
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| Fujiwo Ishimoto - Uniflora
The Japanese-born artist and designer Fujiwo Ishimoto (born 1941) began his career by studying graphic art and design at the Tokyo University of Arts. After graduating in 1964, he worked as a commercial artist for the Ichida Company. Ishimoto's interest in Scandinavian textile art led him to Finland in 1970. He was first employed by the Decembre company founded by Ristomatti Ratia,... |
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| Homework: Pictures from Finland
Arno Rafael Minkkinen (born 1945) is a Finnish-born artist who grew up and studied in the United States. For over three decades he has made black and white photographic works taking as his theme his own naked body, which is often combined with a landscape or urban space.
Minkkinen is a kind of wizard, whose works are at once witty, profound, humorous and poetic. He does not... |
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| Mikko Maasalo
In MUU gallery an installation, consisting of a series of paintings and a “High Pressure Sodium†– lamp, creates optical motion in an attempt to direct the viewer’s attention to one’s own visual system.
The colour impressions created by painted surfaces of black, white and different shades of grey change when the dominant light gradually shifts from... |
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| Julian Schnabel: The Conscious Gaze of Frightened Young Nuns
The debut exhibition by Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York in 1979 was a sensation which overnight transformed him from an unknown restaurant chef to one of the most sought-after stars of the art world. He became a controversial icon of 1980s American art; a bad boy and ‘enfant terrible' of the New York art scene, maligned by critics and loved by... |
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| BEN AF SCHULTEN and the Artek tradition
In the Gallery at the Alvar Aalto Museum December 5, 2007 to February 24, 2008.
The first exhibition to be held in the Gallery, the Alvar Aalto Museum’s new venue for temporary exhibitions, is entitled Ben af Schultén & the Artek tradition. The exhibition will be showing a cross-section of the work of the designer Ben af Schultén. On show there will be well-known light... |
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| The Actors and Victims of Photojournalism
Who are the paparazzi? What is gonzo journalism, and who was the bestknown media player of the 1960s and’70s?
The exhibition shows familiar and less wellknown press images from over the years.
The exhibition is curated by PhD, researcher Hannu Vanhanen.
The history of photojournalism is one of heroism. That image has largely overshadowed the work of the paparazzi and... |
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| Birger Carlstedt
Birger Carlstedt (1907-1975) is known as a painter of abstract-geometric canvases. He employed an abstract idiom in his paintings in 1929 but reverted after three years to figurative painting, to which he would remain loyal until 1950 when he finally moved on to pure abstraction.
Amos Anderson Art Museum received a substantial collection of paintings as a testamentary donation... |
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| Idea Competition for Espoo City Hall
To commemorate Espoo's 550th anniversary, an international architecture competition is being held for the renovation of City Hall and an adjoining office complex. The competition starts in December and lasts until the end of March 2008. The languages of the competition are Finnish and English. The competition area is City Hall and its environs, but the entire adjoining office complex... |
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| The 16th International Poster Biennal Lahti 2007
High-quality poster art from all over the world will be displayed at Lahti Art Museum 15 June to 30 September 2007. The posters will compete and prizes awarded in two categories, cultural, social and commercial posters and environmental posters. A serigraphy workshop will also be arranged in co-operation with the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts.
One third of the entries submitted came... |
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| Grey Matters – Aftercrop
What is photography really – optics, chemistry or visualized thought? The various relationships between photography and thinking are the theme of the new version of the permanent exhibition titled Aftercrop – A photograph is the spectacle of light marks, and the world is its stage.
The new collection hanging contemplates the various relationships between photography,... |
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